Live while you are alive
Write an almost universally popular TV Drama and you can be sure that some misanthrope will grumble about it. I was waiting for someone with a chip on his shoulder to try to take Downton Abbey apart, and sure enough, such a piece recently appeared in The Guardian. I love the Guardian. It is the …
“Sovereign citizen” (also known as “freeman” or “common law citizen”), is a term used to refer to a political movement which grew out of a belief in government abuse of power. Members often refuse to hold social security cards or driver’s licenses and avoid using zip codes. They believe that U.S. citizens are either “Fourteenth …
The practice of gratitude creates the kind of mind that is required for the practice of abiding pleasure. Therefore make every day thanksgiving day. (“Tending the Epicurean Garden”, Hiram Crespo). The other day I took the opportunity of a long plane flight to write out a list of all the blessings in my life. It …
Money should be used as a means and not an end. Our wealth lies in having good friends, a loving spouse or partner, an exciting hobby, the meals we prepare, the holidays we enjoy and simply loving the life we lead. This is a key teaching of Epicurus. Once you internalize this and make it …
Ah, nothing is too late Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate. Cato learned Greek at eighty; Sophocles Wrote his grand Oedipus, and Simonides Bore off the prize of verse from his compeers, When each had numbered more than fourscore years. And Theophrastus, at fourscore and ten Had but begun his “Characters of Men”. …
